Direct download links (or CDN) #1679

JustinDrake · 2012-02-03T18:32:19Z

How can I get the file bootstrap.css directly (without having to download the whole .zip file)? Is there a CDN of some sort?

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caniszczyk · 2012-02-03T18:38:33Z

Maybe something like CDNJS would help? http://www.cdnjs.com/

cliffano · 2012-02-04T04:24:14Z

+1 for a CDN
Would be nice to have bootstrap cached on the browser once for thousands of sites to benefit.

ghost · 2012-02-04T05:11:33Z

You can link to http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/assets/css/bootstrap.css, but it's uncompressed

JakeWharton · 2012-02-04T05:51:58Z

It's also not versioned nor guaranteed to not move.

cassionandi · 2012-02-06T16:20:32Z

+1 for a CDN

nickmalcolm · 2012-02-07T10:37:22Z

+1 for a CDN for both minified CSS and JS

dbpolito · 2012-02-07T14:46:13Z

👍 for CDN

frosas · 2012-02-09T19:17:09Z

Another +1 for a CDN

owyongsk · 2012-02-09T19:40:00Z

Needs, CDN, badly, please. +1

frosas · 2012-02-09T20:53:17Z

@mindctrl what about the convenience of not having to download, unzip, ... it?

I really like being able to bootstrap projects as fast as this:

<!doctype html>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/1.4.0/bootstrap.min.css" />
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<h1>My new awesome project</h1>

iron9light · 2012-02-14T08:29:52Z

+1

martijnmegens · 2012-02-14T14:20:27Z

+1 for a CDN

laczoka · 2012-02-15T15:48:10Z

+1 for a CDN

g00fy- · 2012-02-15T18:23:33Z

+1

lexden · 2012-02-16T22:58:18Z

+1

jmcclell · 2012-02-20T11:38:20Z

👍

caniszczyk · 2012-02-21T03:13:26Z

Looks like someone added it on CDNJS:

http://www.cdnjs.com/#/search/bootstrap, not sure who

jhurliman · 2012-02-23T08:13:25Z

@caniszczyk Thanks for the link. Now we just need https://github.com/cdnjs/cdncss to get off the ground.

mppfiles · 2012-02-24T11:47:15Z

👍 4 CDN ;)

philipp-spiess · 2012-02-24T14:08:42Z

+1

geowa4 · 2012-02-24T16:32:38Z

+1

bcarl · 2012-02-25T04:14:04Z

+1

rjnienaber · 2012-02-28T14:09:21Z

+1

akshatpradhan · 2012-03-01T02:04:34Z

+1

wub · 2012-03-01T03:42:59Z

+1

pbuda · 2012-03-01T16:05:11Z

+1

jaconza · 2012-03-01T16:58:12Z

+1 for hosting Javascript modules and Css on CDN

bighappyface · 2012-03-06T23:20:05Z

Aye. +1

janmarek · 2012-03-07T09:11:15Z

+1

nlaplante · 2012-03-08T15:19:24Z

+1

lgs · 2012-05-30T06:41:39Z

+1

jhfrench · 2012-06-01T16:41:34Z

+1 with the javascript combined and minified as well.
See http://encosia.com/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-google-host-jquery-for-you/ for a compelling case to adopt CDN whenever possible.

jhfrench · 2012-06-01T16:42:57Z

PS--"problem" with cdnjs is that it doesn't seem to support SSL. So if your site is SSL, including a http asset introduces problems.

xeoncross · 2012-06-01T17:16:06Z

A CDN isn't useful if your site is over SSL as there is no caching benefit from other domains. With SSL the only thing it saves is your servers bandwidth.

jhfrench · 2012-06-01T17:46:57Z

@xeoncross: But that's not the only benefit of a CDN resource called via https. One would also benefit from (to paraphrase) the advantages of geographically-distributed CDN servers vs your own "arbitrarily-located" server.
Plus, if I understand this correctly, increased parallelism comes into play.

flashtopia · 2012-06-01T19:49:20Z

CDNJS is also extremely slow at random times. Their service is great for a Poor man's CDN, but wont give you any real performance, all it might do is save you a few cents off your bandwith bill. Now that NetDNA / MaxCDN has decided to host bootstrap on http://bootstrapcdn.com/ it would be very cool if they also had other popular frameworks. Compared to other CDN providers they have a ton of edge locations, and are lightning fast. In our tests from both NY and Northern California, content from their edge locations loads faster than both google app engine and amazon.
Cant wait!

flashtopia · 2012-06-01T19:53:21Z

@xeoncross, if a cdn does not support https then you get mixed content warnings on your ssl pages. there are added benefits because a proper cdn uses gzip, cookieless domains. And although the content from Https will not cache in some browsers, its still a huge performance results from closer edge locations, and using a different domain name for parallel downloads. We use a combo of amazon cloud and godaddy cloud servers. The cdn provider we use, is cheaper on outgoing bandwidth than either of our hosting partners. For us its a no brainer to use CDN (https) for all our static requests (images, css, pdf, js) All our servers create and push are html.

jdorfman · 2012-06-10T05:05:51Z

Ok here you go kids: http://bootstrapcdn.com/

Yes it has SSL Support. Please help me make the site better: https://github.com/jdorfman/bootstrap-cdn

Thanks.

jhfrench · 2012-06-10T13:51:55Z

Good man. Thank you.

barryvdh · 2012-06-10T20:56:30Z

Just beware that when @jdorfman decides to pull the plug (or has downtime), your sites will become unusable. (Not saying that he would, but maybe something to keep in mind before you build all your sites with this cdn)

jdorfman · 2012-06-10T23:01:21Z

@barryvdh you make a valid point. At the very bottom of the site I state: "This free service comes with no warranty. NetDNA LLC. shall not be held responsible for any issues related to availability or performance." I should make it bigger.

With that said I was hoping our competitors (EdgeCast, Amazon, Fastly, etc.) would fork their own version and offer this as a free service.

If you are using Bootstrap CDN in production and are experiencing performance issues email me direct: jdorfman at netdna dot com. I will make sure it gets resolved in a timely fashion.

flashtopia · 2012-06-11T08:00:39Z

I have been using NetDNA (max CDN) for two years. Never had any issues in regards to downtime. If you are super worried you can always use a fallback url that hosts the files on your own servers, similar to what is done with Jquery in html boilerplate.

With that said, the same could be true of goolgle and microsoft hosting free items such as jquery. They both do not come with a 100% guarantee that they will be up forever.

KayLeung · 2012-06-11T19:18:18Z

Thanks NetDNA. @jdorfman, can you add Asia edge to it?

jdorfman · 2012-06-11T20:33:26Z

@KayLeung you are welcome. I will see what I can do. Only issue currently is SSL will not work in APAC.

flashtopia · 2012-06-14T16:49:39Z

@bootstrap. I think you can close this issue. What would be really neat is if the bootstrap examples used links from the CDN, maybe with local fallbacks. The more people use this service, the quicker it will be. It would be great to see if twitter has some feedback on @jdorfman / NetDNA's project

jdorfman · 2012-06-14T18:25:07Z

For those who are hesitant using bootstrapcdn we now have public status page that monitors uptime and performance: http://status.bootstrapcdn.com/

fat · 2012-07-22T20:12:29Z

Tagging this issue as popular, please stop commenting on this issue with +1. thanks!

ghost · 2012-07-29T18:31:38Z

Can't it be put on Google's CDN? Bootstrap is a really popular tool.

fat · 2012-07-30T06:32:31Z

Closing as there are a number of cdn's that offer this now. If you'd like it on google, please raise it with the google bros - :)

paolodina · 2012-08-26T10:48:15Z

I filed a ticket on google-ajax-apis bug tracker asking for Google CDN support for Bootstrap.

To add your +1, please star the issue: http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=637

Thanks.

ytjohn · 2012-09-18T19:37:49Z

Looks like bootstrapcdn is the popular choice, but for those wanting to use cdnjs.com, they have "all the files" and keep them up to date (version 2.0.0 through 2.1.1).

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.1.1/bootstrap.min.js">

dorba · 2012-10-31T00:19:18Z

There's an error in the minified JS link above. The extension should be .js, not .css; i.e:
http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/2.1.1/bootstrap.min.js

chrvadala · 2012-11-03T19:04:25Z

+1

flashtopia · 2012-11-10T14:30:44Z

CNDJS blows.
why dont you use the NetDna twitterbootstrap?

ytjohn · 2012-11-14T21:04:03Z

@barrydorman Good catch, fixed.

ase69s · 2013-05-29T11:52:03Z

+1

luceos · 2013-07-04T11:23:00Z

A solution also is: http://bootcdn.com

fedmich · 2014-01-24T13:18:27Z

+1 too. I wonder which one to use now though and which is faster http://cdnjs.com or http://bootcdn.com ?

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Direct download links (or CDN) #1679

Direct download links (or CDN) #1679

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